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Romeo Void and Team land in a fishing boat. The rain is shapeshifting moment to moment. Another life. Another ocean. A novel by Tim Barrus

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Memory Lane. I was at Drummer and it totally changed my life. Drummer never made mon ey. It lost a lost of money. Money was irrelevant. Sex was an act that had political significance. The other guts at Drummer hated me. To this day, I do not know why. Shrugs. After I put an ad in, Drummer was my sex machine. I made 16k a year there. Finding food could be a problem. No one makes 16K in SF. Or are there. Slaves. You will find them at any part of the cosmic spectrum. I had a blast. Thank you. -- tim

Drummer, issues 1 through 12, June 1975 through January 1977

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My stint at Drummer was after this. Sex was a political act. A lot of memories. I was working there at the same time, the Nixon Administration created a witch hunt (the Meese Commission, Mess was the Attorney General) whose goal was to shut porn down in America. Times were tough back then, too, and people were struggling to stay well. I am forever glad I had that experience. Very intense. -- tim

Brutus for Drummer Issue #70 (1984)

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Debbie Harry and Jerry Nolan aka Gerrard Nolan (New York Dolls/The Heartbrakers)

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Kitty Tsui (born 1952) is an American author, poet, actor, and bodybuilder. She was the first known Asian American lesbian to publish a book Words of a Woman who Breathes Fire, published in 1983

read her books for free Breathless: Erotica (1996) and Sparks Fly (1997) (nsfw content)

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Take notes. Ross has major chops with his interviewing skills. I'm not sure if I have ever seen or heard anything like this interview. I am interested in the sparring. In some ways, Ross did push some (Ross, you squirmed, don't do that), and then he smiled and settled back down. I would have pushed Thiel on the anti-Christ stuff, first upfront. Thiel is a cowboy. I did not know that. Ross is reverent. Peter Thiel did more than squirm. It was authentic. He rarely seemed to have eye contact. Why is this a trait of all the Gods of Silicon Valley. I tell myself every day not to be autistic. What I see (I do not know what you see and I don't really care that much about what you see) is someone who masks. We all mask.

Thiel is very good at it, but I was not expecting the degree to which he seemed lost, deep in thought, and he was definitely nervous. Douthat has the ability to be an attack dog. But he masks, too. This was Nice Ross. Quietly questioning yet another billionaire. I have questions, too. Ross almost leapt off the couch when Thiel could not make himself say that homo sapiens sapiens should endure. The response was telling. He's conflicted. Look at the body language. Obviously, Peter Thiel is brilliant. He's very concerned that you are aware of that. OK, we're aware of it. Ross was dying to get to religion. Thiel was dying to go home. Both men swallowed it. Manners. Civility. I come away with it with a bad taste in my mouth. Thiel is a very dangerous man. He scares me.

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The Writing of Dirt Bike Town

I am making lists of where such a manuscript might find a home.

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When you are filming stuff, you kinda know, but you kinda don't know if it is going to work. Hollywood's secret is that it's all mainly an accident. -- tim barrus

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I have to walk around this place very carefully. These are not my people. But. I'm a writer. Everything (and I mean everything) is material. All of living is material. The way you smoked that cigarette is material. Your shoes are blue suede. Blue Suede Shoes. My dirt bike makes this gurgle sound whenever I rev that baby up. It's material. The way you set the table is material. Your boyfriend is the ugliest homo sapiens in cosmic history. Material. These sad animals are bred and bred and bred again. You end up with an animal that can barely carry what we have done to his head because we are so hung up, and fucked up, with all the lies masculinity is supposed to be about. Patriarcal insanity. Why don't we just breed them to have cars on their head. How masculine is that. I am so in awe of cowboys. Right. It will never happen. How many cowboys do you really know. I do not make trouble while in Dodge. I will get invited into people's homes. Many of the older houses are from the 1850s. They tend to be white. They're very dark inside. The wood is thick as knots. They are going to eat the cow they are so proud of. Cows are material. Church is material. Titty bars are material. Chickens are material. The way you wear those sunglasses is material. Kids do not come back to this town. It's material. A divorce can be material. You wife is truly material. My job is to describe the whole nine yards. Dodge is America. In Dirt Bike Town, global warming had made its mark. The new beach resort is in Oklahoma. It is never time to get out of Dodge.

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Tim Barrus: Dirt Bike Town

Book tropes that scream taurus

a stubborn yet fiercely loyal MC

practical solutions in the middle of an apocalypse 

overprotective older sibling who just wants to be loved 

a slow-burn

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HAPPY MURDERBOT PREMIERE DAY

To anyone that wants to reach me today, in the wise words of Murderbot, "I received your request but decided to ignore you"

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“If you don't make a fool of yourself over animals, at least in private, you aren't to be trusted.”

—What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

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Celebrate Pride Month with Tor Publishing Group! 

Sandymancer by David Edison

Caralee Vinnet lives in a world of dust, where water is rare and the elements are tightly controlled. She has a secret: magic in her bones that lets her command the sand. But when she uses it, she summons the god-king who broke the world 800 years ago…and who’s now wearing her best friend’s body. Caralee will risk everything to save her friend—if her new companion doesn’t kill her first.

Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle

Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster struck. In what became known as the Low-Probability Event, 8 million people died in bizarre, improbable ways. Vera, a former statistics professor, lost everything that day. But when a special agent arrives, investigating an impossibly lucky casino, Vera realizes she may be the only one who can stop another deadly improbability from happening again.

Coming August 12, 2025!

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Celebrate Pride Month with Tor Publishing Group! 

Don't Sleep with the Dead by Nghi Vo

Nick Carraway has built a quiet life in 1930s New York. He's good at watching high society and pretending: pretending to be straight, to be human, to have forgotten the summer of 1922. But when a familiar face appears one dark night, he realizes Gatsby, dead or not, isn’t finished with him. In all paper there is memory, and Nick's ghost has come home.

Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame by Neon Yang

With an armored, oath-bound hero reminiscent of The Mandalorian and the Asian-inspired epic fantasy of She Who Became the Sun, Neon Yang’s Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame is a stunning queer novella about a dragon hunter finding home with a dragon queen.

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Infinity Alchemist by Kacen Callender

Only an elite few are legally permitted to study the science of magic—so when Ash is rejected by Lancaster College of Alchemic Science, he is forced to learn alchemy in secret. Caught by brilliant apprentice Ramsay Thorne, Ash is sure he's about to be arrested—but instead she makes him an offer: help her find the legendary Book of Source, a sacred text that gives its reader extraordinary power, and she’ll keep his secret.

The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

In the small town of Thistleford, the Hawthorn family tends enchanted willows and honours an ancient compact to sing to them in thanks for their magic. Sisters Esther and Ysabel are devoted to the trees, and even more to each other. But when Esther rejects a forceful suitor for a lover from Faerie, the bond between them—and their lives—are put at risk.

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Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman

After losing the parents who saved him from an abusive home, Griffon Keming is left with a single journal—his father’s, written from death row. Bloodstained and grief-soaked, it tells a love story between two artists on fire. Notes from a Regicide is a heart-wrenching tale of trans self-discovery with a sci-fi twist from award-winning author Isaac Fellman. 

Tell Me I’m Worthless by Alison Rumfitt

Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, and her life has spiraled since. Memories of that night torment Alice, but when asked to return to the House, she knows she must go. Alison Rumfitt’s Tell Me I’m Worthless is a dark, unflinching haunted house story that confronts both supernatural and real-world horrors through the lens of the modern-day trans experience.